Monday, August 11, 2014

Counterblast Rocket Rider

As part of the Sci-Fi Challenge at Reaper Miniatures Forum, I recently painted a Rocket Rider from Counterblast. Cast in resin and sculpted by Patrick Keith, the detail is crisp and the lines are gorgeous.

The palette I chose was inspired by the work of historical gamers/painters whose work I have been following for all these years. Now I quite fancy these greens, tans and browns and anticipate using them more often in future work.

Clean and tidy brushwork was my goal with this model. Further I wanted a simple base that contrasted with the figure but did not draw attention from it. I hope I have accomplished this modest goal.

I will be a bit late making the rounds today as I stayed up rather late working on a small dio for the Challenge. In short, I'll be by when I roll out of bed this afternoon.

Wow Anne, you've done that sculpt proud there! I really could not do that panelling of yours any better. That said, if I would get my hands on this model, I'd go for the Navy blue scheme seen on US Naval fighter squadrons of WW2.

He's got the concept art for a model based on the Fighting Tigers. I WANT that model so bad my teeth hurt. I'll do that one in USAF colours and try to do the nose art as well. I'm hoping he sells a ton of stuff at Gen Con so he can afford to have that one cast.

Tan is a very pale brown, darker than beige. However, moi does not like the words Black and Tan used in the same sentence as it gets my temper up. Bastards thought they could defeat us. Well, we showed them a thing or two.

I've done up a little vignette of a tiny, lonely little bot and his spaceship that is done is glowing greens. I think you shall like that one as it is almost as cute as you are :0)

It is a delight, dahlink, we could use a whole fleet of those rockets on current world rulers.... we could launch them up their arses :) Will the bot have stripes? :) Not only that my shirts are striped by now my face too: I've been downtown today at noon and the sun was so scorching that I now have two white lines from my glasses on my temples :) and lines on my feet too from the flipflops LOL

I'm terribly afraid for the world, dear, especially with how Devila and Obama are spinning every truth and using propaganda as their weapon. Russia sent more than 200 trucks with food and medicines for the people in Ukraine who are bombarded by their own government, and the West is trying to show it as something evil... what the hell?

The news here is all propaganda when it comes to Russia. When Russian troops go anywhere to help, the West accuses them of being a fighting force. They've no idea how much work those soldiers do and they hate them. There are loads of Russian soldiers that work with animal conservation in Siberia and without them, the work couldn't be done. They and the biologists are successfully returning orphaned cubs back to their habitat. The tigers live and they breed. The work there is amazing. But the West won't tell that magnificent story.

it's just so deeply disturbing, dear, all the spinning and the propaganda against the victims, that sometimes I feel I should just stop watching news, stop reading the papers and just live in blissful ignorance.... And sometimes I wonder how ordinary Americans have to be gullible to buy all the shocking crap that is being served to them on a daily basis from their government.... Dahlink, we should just find ourselves an isolated mountain or an island and never care about the rest of the ebil world anymore....

The Hubby has a friend who just returned from the Ukraine. He told us lots of things that the US is lying to us about. He said that the US is sending loads of spy planes flying over and are entering Russian airspace illegally and with impunity. He also said that the stories of Russian soldiers amassing on the borders is bollox. Those are soldiers doing humanitarian work, not supplying weapons.

I'm voting for the island darling, as moi does not like snow. On an island we could have tropical flowers and drinks served to us by gorgeous tanned men. And we could rub sun tan oil onto their backs.

Anne; I've said it once before; I'll say it again....I envy your talent....this kicks ass.....the colors rock and compliment one another extremely well.....it's too bad you can't figure out how to get flames to shoot out of the rocket...

The brushes are sooo tiny and are made specifically for this kind of painting. I can't think of anything to compare them with to give you an idea of scale though. Having flames shoot out can be done. There is a company that makes shooting flames that you can attach and then paint. They look great coming out a giant dragons mouth.

I don't know if there is a special name for the technique or not. It did take a lot of time to do each one as there are so many layers and glazes between each level of highlight. I will say this though-it's so much easier than painting human skin. I enjoy it more too.